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The Changing Tahrir Square 30 Nov 2012 | 03:11 pm
Egypt is still in the midst of a revolution after nearly twenty months of turmoil and protest. Nowhere is revolution more visible then in the capital city of Cairo where more than twenty million peopl...
Debating the exact nature of contemporary Israel and Palestine 30 Nov 2012 | 02:59 pm
How often do we hear that the debate on Israel is changing in the West? The emergence of a liberal coterie of American intellectuals who coalesce around “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” organisations such as J...
The Ready-for-War City 29 Nov 2012 | 01:06 pm
It’s not only in the contested cities of the Middle East where war has a footprint. Military demands, from surveillance technology to anti-terrorism defenses, are beginning to play an important role i...
Sure, you could say this was a Twitter War. 24 Nov 2012 | 06:21 pm
Sure, you could say this was a Twitter War. You would say that, of course, because Israel announced the launch of the fighting on Twitter. You would say that because after the fighting started, a seco...
Israelis Dig in Their Heels for a Long Gaza Conflict 19 Nov 2012 | 03:59 pm
Five days of escalating violence between the Israeli military and Gazan militants has left Israel in a panicked state of war. The southern area of the country is slowly transforming into a large milit...
Homeland No More: The End of the Two State Solution 29 Oct 2012 | 05:12 pm
While the media pays far too little attention to everyday developments on the ground and the international community stands idly by, the Palestinian voice has become divided and confused, its body pol...
Palestinian divide deepens with day of local elections 19 Oct 2012 | 03:29 pm
While the American presidential election dominates international news, Palestinians on the West Bank are caught in their own election fever. After years of stagnation and mismanagement, over half a mi...
In Hebron, All-Female Ticket Attempts to Break into Palestinian Politics 16 Oct 2012 | 12:09 pm
Over half a million Palestinians on the West Bank will head to the polls next Saturday, 20 October 2012, for the time since 2006 to elect municipal leadership. One month after large scale economic pro...
Celebrating Beer in the West Bank 13 Oct 2012 | 02:34 pm
Germany is not the only country with a popular October beer festival. The fall festivity has unlikely roots in the West Bank, where the small village of Taybeh holds annual party in celebration of its...
Sderot, an Unlikely Place for a Tourism and Real Estate Boom 5 Oct 2012 | 05:31 pm
The southern Israeli city of Sedrot seems like an unlikely place for a real estate and tourism boom. Less than one mile from Israel’s border with the Gaza, it has been the target of rocket fire from P...
